Vehicle openings

Abstract

Added openings are provided for sport utility vehicles (SUV), pick-up trucks, two and four door vehicles, vans, minivans, station wagons, or other vehicles. The opening(s) may utilize doors, gates, windows, sunroofs, or lids that provide more physical and / or visual access to the interior space, cargo, and / or seating within the vehicles that currently are not easily accessible, viewed, seen-by, or displayed-on conventional opening means. These openings may also provide the ability to place cargo within the space of the vehicle that current vehicles prohibit from being carried therein, or they may provide decorative, descriptive, or electronic displays for such vehicles, for example, advertising on taxi cabs. Among the embodiments, this invention results in a new 2 door or a 4 door SUV vehicle having added rear side doors, and a new 2 door or 4 door automobile that in effect functions likes a pick-up.

Description

RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims the benefit, under 35 U.S.C. § 119(e), of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60 / 549,294, filed Mar. 2, 2004 under 35 U.S.C. § 111(b), which application is incorporated herein in its entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention generally relates to added vehicle openings and more particularly to added doors, gates, windows, and lids in doors, sides, truck gates, and trunk lids of vehicles. Most particularly, the present invention relates to added doors, gates, windows, and lids in doors, sides, truck gates, windows, a sunroof, and trunk lids for more access to space and seats, visual view-through or display-on, and portability of cargo in vehicles. [0003] Typically in the past, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), pick-up trucks, two door and four door automobiles, vans, minivans, station wagons, or other vehicles, have had one or two doors, toward the front of the vehicle, on each side and possibly a rear a...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

"The present invention provides new openings for vehicles that offer more access and visual seeing-through. These openings can be doors, gates, windows, sunroofs, or lids that can be used to provide more space within the vehicle for cargo, seating, or other uses. The openings can be of different types and can be located on one or both sides of the vehicle. The doors, gates, windows, or lids can be expandable, rollable, retractable, or removable. The invention also includes a trunk bed that can be used to carry more cargo or act as a bed for a pick-up truck. The trunk bed has a lid that can be opened or closed and can be equipped with a gate or other means to expose the bed. The technical effects of the invention include increased access, visual seeing-through, and the ability to carry more cargo or act as a bed for a pick-up truck."

Problems solved by technology

However, there are, for example, space, third row seats, viewing areas, and / or cargo, that are currently difficult to get to, see, see through, or port by current physical and visual access, and portability means in such vehicles.

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